eayers0.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

Reminder that this is happening this weekend. Register to join via Zoom, and listen to me talk about how wealthy businesspeople have kept race science alive for the past 75 years, despite academic scientists’ best efforts to quash it.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Another reminder of why Philly is the best place I’ve ever lived

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Call for Nominations for Officers: International Society for History, Philosophy, & Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB) President-elect (2025-27) who then becomes President (2027-29) Council members (2025-29), 3 vacancies Program Co-Chairs (2025-27) for 2027 conference Deadline March 14 #HPS

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Don't forget to register for the Yale Gilder Lehman Center's conference next week on Universities + the Histories of Race, Science + Medicine. I'm speaking, along with @ayahnerd.bsky.social, @jowiph.bsky.social, Carolyn Roberts, David Blight + more! macmillan.yale.edu/glc/2025-ann...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Ideas about "new" technologies + the potential of communicating with the dead is very 19thC and if I wasn't already totally overcommitted I'd write about it; someone else should. aeon.co/essays/are-c...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

We won’t penalize you for researching gender, in fact, we’ll reward you for it.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

It’s been a rough week between the downfall of America, sheer ice + freezing temps, getting hit with the “yague” that’s sweeping campus + relentless work. But this morning we went on a mini hike and are grading in bed with a latté. ❄️

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

My students are gonna have a field day with this hyperallergic.com/990084/fashi...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

From a FOIA perspective, "the entire federal workforce should write down and email what they did last week" is extremely funny

submitted 4 days ago • 198 comments

Rare enforcement success in the illegal trade of cacti - 2 Italian cacti smugglers prosecuted for illegal trade of over 1000 cacti wild harvested in Chile www.conservation-litigation.org/news/press-r...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Today in National Parks News The pushback from the idiotic firing of thousands of National Parks employees is having an effect. Keep calling Keep the pressure on 202 224 3121 www.latimes.com/california/s...

submitted 5 days ago • 44 comments

Omg www.npr.org/2025/02/18/n...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Extremely grateful to be teaching about the history of reproductive rights (or lack thereof) and abortion in my lecture class this week - while maybe not an obvious choice for a history of botany class, plants = health = abortifacients. Fired up about teaching what matters while the world burns.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Me, working on my little articles and book projects in February 2025:

submitted 9 days ago • 16 comments

This week's return of Last Week Tonight has truly never been needed more.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

🌱🌿🌱 Registration is now live for the "Thinking With Plants + Fungi" conference at @harvard.edu, May 15-17 for in-person or livestreamed attendance. Speakers include Merlin Sheldrake, Michael Marder, Jessica Lee, and...me!! I'll be talking about moss (obv). 🌱🌿🌱 cswr.hds.harvard.edu/research-pro...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Got my copy of @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social’s new book in the mail today - can’t wait to dig into it.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Another Monday, another day of things scheduled at exactly the same time on campus! At 3:45 our usual HSHM Holmes Workshop (on 18thC meteorology), at 4:30 this awesome @yalewhc.bsky.social event, "When Bacteria Rule the World: Toward a Trans-species Architecture"... whc.yale.edu/when-bacteri...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

A pretty read for a snowy, icy, stormy Sunday: www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Worth noting that academic associations can actually have a backbone and refuse to comply - some other orgs should take note 👀

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Here is the pre-RFK vaccination schedule for your kids. Please download it before he is confirmed and changes/deletes it. Give it to your pediatrician and say this is the schedule you want your kids on. Making this my pinned post.

submitted 22 days ago • 95 comments

And this tiny case study is a microcosm of our bigger epistemological + political disaster: book bans, data erasure, the general volatility of digital records, the unreliability of commercial information infrastructures, the prevalence of state censorship + redaction, esp amidst fascism... And so on

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

This semester is over the top busy, but Franklin (+ his new haircut) is having a blast playing in the snow and then passing out on my feet while I work. Lots of lattés for a freezing and exhausted mom.

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

I'm giving a number of talks this semester, but a couple of cool ones are coming up that you can register for now...

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

NEH has posted updates to the funding restrictions for some grant programs.

submitted 15 days ago • 19 comments

NEH’s Fellowships program is accepting applications. This program supports scholars in conducting #humanities research & producing books, monographs, peer-reviewed articles, e-books, born-digital materials, translations w/annotations or a critical apparatus, or critical editions. ow.ly/JBme50UV92u

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

So many good events coming up at Yale over the next couple of weeks (like, way too many) - today, at 3:45PM, Myrna Perez on "Criticizing Science" four our HSHM colloquium. And at 5PM, @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social on her new book, Dark Laboratory. environmentalhumanities.yale.edu/event/tao-le...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

This is so great. grist.org/arts-culture...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

"In every living thing there ticks a clock...": @david-farrier.bsky.social superb & unsettling on how "wild clocks"––spruce saplings, oyster colonies, reindeer herds––are falling out of synchronization as the Earth transforms. It’s becoming harder to keep time. emergencemagazine.org/essay/wild-c...

submitted 27 days ago • 6 comments

Me completely disassociating to get through classes every day

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

So yeah it’s all still very bad

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Many ancient desert species have seen more than you have. What do they carry with them?

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

If you’ve been wondering what Elon Musk and his lackeys are up to since taking control of the US government, look no further. Our latest story names six 19- to 24-year-olds working with his DOGE organization, which now has access to sensitive federal systems. wrd.cm/4jzpiSN

submitted 24 days ago • 267 comments

NEW: @wired.com built a tool to monitor 1,300+ federal .gov websites, revealing that entire sites are going dark as we speak. @telliotter.bsky.social, @dmehro.bsky.social (who built the tool), and @dell.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/us-gov...

submitted 25 days ago • 83 comments

On cactus poaching, survival, and the global houseplant trade - a fascinating piece: www.ft.com/content/13af...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Another feature of living under authoritarianism is that records would be erased at an alarming rate, while most of us are too overwhelmed by explicit repression to even notice. Think of any materials you find valuable that are publicly available now. Back them up.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Oh my god. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

The regime is 100% coming for academic freedom and most of university admins will buckle... unless we force them to do something else. If you don't already have a union get involved with @aaup.bsky.social

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

I like Ask a Manager in general, but this post on advice for federal workers, incl a number of links, is important + helpful, especially when everything is so confusing and overwhelming. www.askamanager.org/2025/01/ques...

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Yet again I am asking myself: why am I watching this hearing.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Incredibly proud to be supporting this work! mauinow.com/2025/01/28/3...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Federal research funding may be “paused,” but we are open for business. Don’t be a stranger.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Hmmm www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments